health data privacy

Microsoft’s March 12, 2026 preview of Copilot Health turns the company’s consumer-facing Copilot from a general productivity assistant into an expressly medical-facing workspace that promises to read your electronic health records, ingest continuous wearable telemetry, pull in lab results, and...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Health preview is the clearest sign yet that the cloud giants intend to make consumer-facing AI the default front door to personal healthcare — a privacy‑segmented Copilot workspace that ingests electronic health records, lab results and wearable telemetry, explains...

Function Health’s latest move to link member lab and imaging records into Microsoft’s new Copilot Health marks a clear pivot from one‑off diagnostics to data‑rich, AI‑centred care pathways—and it crystallizes both the promise and the hazards of plumbing personal medical histories into consumer...

Microsoft’s push to give Copilot access to aggregated medical records and wearable data is the clearest sign yet that mainstream AI chatbots are asking for the keys to our health histories — and that users, clinicians and regulators all need to slow down and insist on stronger guardrails before...

Satya Nadella’s short, pointed message to Microsoft’s gaming teams — “For me, we’re long on gaming. We’ll continue to invest, and we’ll always do so.” — landed like both a reassurance and a challenge: reassurance that the company’s commitment to games remains, and a challenge that words must now...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot push has a new—and arguably personal—ambition: to become the place you hand your medical records and wearable data and ask for an intelligible summary, a second opinion, or a prep sheet for your next doctor’s visit. The company’s Copilot Health preview promises to pull...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now explicitly asking to be invited into the most intimate ledger most people own: their medical record, their wearable history, and the messy, human narrative that lives between the two. The company’s preview of Copilot Health promises a “separate, secure space” that can...

National Poop Day landed on my calendar the way most odd holidays do: as a cartoonish, slightly embarrassing curiosity that suddenly demands a moment of attention because it touches something universal and stubbornly human. What began as a children’s museum referendum in 2016 has quietly become...